“I had the thing for over half a century, and there is no one else on the planet who could have captained it. When he woke up in the morning, the sub was gone from its slip. He arrived the day before the rich men were scheduled to meet, and checked in to a local Airbnb. It still operates, and got to Tahiti just fine.”Įdwardio simply wanted to impress the wealthy visitors, and maybe get an inkling into how much it might be worth. “I’ve had the yellow submarine since the late 1960s, after the band and management group used it to draw up the cartoon version in support of the song,” said Edward Edwardio, 86, of Guam. and English collectors of Beatles memorabilia were meeting in the town of Papeete in Tahiti to look over a group of old Beatles items considered of value.ĭue to their visit, the original owner captained the ship to the political center of French Polynesia. In that situation, a group of wealthy U.S. Hanahewa contacted authorities, who through a global computer search discovered that the original sub was stolen in 2011, during a tour in Tahiti. I took a picture of it with my Polaroid.” “So I looked at it really close, and it looked like whoever put it there tried to make it look like a fancy propane tank. “I crept up, and up closer, then used binoculars and saw what I remembered in the cartoon as a kid. “I mean, the thing is yellow so really how could you miss it?” asked Everett Hanahewa, 56, of Honolulu, who was visiting relatives when he decided to just explore into the hills. The Yellow Submarine was identified from a distance by a passerby who was lost hiking the wilderness above the Upcountry, Maui town. The original yellow submarine that influenced the Beatles to write the hit song was discovered in Makawao last weekend ~ after being missing for over a decade due to a mysterious memorabilia heist.
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